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Florence Calzado (fl circa 1860s)[1] is the professional name of the "serio-comic vocalist" Florence Beverley.
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Biography
According to the blog , virtually nothing seems to be known about either Florence Beverley or Florence Calzado (her stage name for a while), but in South Africa she was billed as a "serio-comic vocalist". Apparently she became the "wife" of violinist Horace Poussard, had a child by him, and toured with him and the Poussard-Bailey Opera Company in the late 1860s.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
She joined forces with violinist Horace Poussard, the manager Robert Smythe and the latter's wife, the soprano Amelia Bailey, to found the Poussard-Bailey Opera Company, with which they undertook a 4-year tour of India and South Africa, giving more than 300 performances.
Sources
D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 223, 243-6,
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